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...have been deeply disturbed by some of the recent reports concerning the [Dumbarton Oaks] conference. These indicate that it is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this conference. . . . That would be the rankest form of imperialism. . . . The ideals for which we are fighting . . . must not be lost in a cynical peace by which any four powers dominate the earth by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Debate Begins | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...sentiment "What is the matter with U.S. women?" seems to me to be the rankest sort of injustice. Before our record can justly be compared with that of British and Russian women, our Government will have to do three things which the British and Russian Governments did long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...smugly on your interventionist porch and look down on your neighbor's lush America First garden, which, you exultingly perceive, is filled with all manner of obnoxious weeds. Surely you know enough about horticulture to realize that weeds grow rankest where the soil is most fertile. Every good gardener, and your neighbor is one, eventually gets rid of his weeds, often to the chagrin of his early-season critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...this book, says Fritz Thyssen, onetime rich and powerful head of the German steel trust, onetime National Socialist party member, onetime financial backer of Adolf Hitler, now probably a corpse or a haggard prisoner of the Gestapo. I Paid Hitler reveals Thyssen as one of history's rankest examples of The Man Who Was Wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Was Wrong | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...exclaimed that British pilots were "very clever"-they kept changing their altitude so that gunners could not hit them! The British planes, they said, were painted with a wonderful thick black varnish that made them "invisible": gunners could only shoot at their shadows on the clouds. This was the rankest rot. Most night bombers, German included, are given a coat of flat black on their under surfaces. And righteous though the German High Command's rage was at the Britons' "murderous" attacks on Berlin, they knew the enemy was aiming for military targets just as earnestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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